A Privacy-Preserving, Decentralized and Functional Bitcoin E-Voting Protocol

Bao, Zijian; Wang, Bin; Shi, Wenbo

doi:10.1109/smartworld.2018.00078

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“…The bitcoins and voter`s identity are kept confidential by using shuffling strategy and distributed threshold signs are provided with the assurance of protection of votes and voting rights. This methodology could attain accuracy, devolution and secrecy conserving with minimum transactions and maximum operative voting process [12].…”

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Improving the End to End Protection in E-voting using BVM - Blockchain based e-Voting Mechanism

Gupta,

Shukla

2024

Preprint

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The voting is always a crucial topic of public attention for democratic reasons. Due to its simplicity, ease of use, and low cost, e-voting is frequently used for such decision outcomes. The tremendous authority and intervening data in current e-voting systems, however, make them risky and make it difficult to achieve correct equity and clarity in e-voting. By combining e-voting with blockchain technology, these issues are resolved while providing reorganisation and intervention-resistant characteristics. A voter's improper manipulation, such as absenteeism, frequent voting, or non-party voting, may also undermine fairness. A verifier is therefore required to check the e-voting mechanism in order to ensure its effectiveness and control the process equality and fairness. In this paper, a Blockchain based e-Voting Mechanism (BVM) is developed for providing the end to end security and fairness for the transparent voting. This mechanism also provides a Zero-knowledge Proof (ZP) based verifier to inspect the voting procedure against voter`s misoperations and uses a Master-key Administration (MA) based public key cryptography to attack prevention. The utilization of blockchain technology ensures transparency, tamper resistance, and a high level of data integrity, making it a promising choice for modernizing and enhancing the electoral process. Also the performance of BVM has been compared and analysed based on time complexity, security analysis, performance factors like delay and throughput and antiattack examination.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Improving the End to End Protection in E-voting using BVM - Blockchain based e-Voting Mechanism

Gupta,

Shukla

2024

Preprint

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“…(b) Currency-and Non-Currency-Based Solutions: After the emergence and persistent use of cryptocurrencies by governments and corporations, people began to realize that one of the underlying innovations of cryptocurrencies could be used for other purposes [26]. Within this context, there are arguments that a bitcoin-based e-voting system [26,48] may allow the voting for candidates while maintaining the privacy of the individual vote. Zhao and Chan's solution used a zero-knowledge proof cryptography method [26].…”

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A Systematic Review of Challenges and Opportunities of Blockchain for E-Voting

2020

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A blockchain is a distributed, digitized and consensus-based secure information storage mechanism. The present article provides an overview of blockchain based e-voting systems. The primary purpose of this review is to study the up-to-date state of blockchain-based voting research along with associated possible challenges while aiming to forecast future directions. The methodology applied in the review is a systematic review approach. Following an introduction to the basic structure and features of the blockchain in relation to e-voting, we provide a conceptual description of the desired blockchain-based e-voting application. Symmetrical and asymmetrical cryptography improvements play a key role in developing blockchain systems. We have extracted and reviewed 63 research papers from scientific databases that have advised the adoption of the blockchain framework to voting systems. These articles indicate that blockchain-supported voting systems may provide different solutions than traditional e-voting. We classified the main prevailing issues into the five following categories: general, integrity, coin-based, privacy and consensus. As a result of this research, it was determined that blockchain systems can provide solutions to certain problems that prevail in current election systems. On the other hand, privacy protection and transaction speed are most frequently emphasized problems in blockchain applications. Security of remote participation and scalability should be improved for sustainable blockchain based e-voting. It was concluded that frameworks needed enhancements in order to be used in voting systems due to these reservations.

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“…A fair protocol for computing outsourcing has been proposed by Dorsala, whose technical basics are BTC and Ethereum [21]. In addition, BTC is used as a part of fair electronic voting protocol, guaranteeing the security and privacy of voters simultaneously [22]. Moreover, a lottery protocol based on cryptocurrency is proposed [23].…”

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FaDe: A Blockchain-Based Fair Data Exchange Scheme for Big Data Sharing

Chen

Guo

et al. 2019

Future Internet

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In the big data era, data are envisioned as critical resources with various values, e.g., business intelligence, management efficiency, and financial evaluations. Data sharing is always mandatory for value exchanges and profit promotion. Currently, certain big data markets have been created for facilitating data dissemination and coordinating data transaction, but we have to assume that such centralized management of data sharing must be trustworthy for data privacy and sharing fairness, which very likely imposes limitations such as joining admission, sharing efficiency, and extra costly commissions. To avoid these weaknesses, in this paper, we propose a blockchain-based fair data exchange scheme, called FaDe. FaDe can enable de-centralized data sharing in an autonomous manner, especially guaranteeing trade fairness, sharing efficiency, data privacy, and exchanging automation. A fairness protocol based on bit commitment is proposed. An algorithm based on blockchain script architecture for a smart contract, e.g., by a bitcoin virtual machine, is also proposed and implemented. Extensive analysis justifies that the proposed scheme can guarantee data exchanging without a trusted third party fairly, efficiently, and automatically.

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A Privacy-Preserving, Decentralized and Functional Bitcoin E-Voting Protocol

Cited by 8 publications

References 13 publications

Improving the End to End Protection in E-voting using BVM - Blockchain based e-Voting Mechanism

Improving the End to End Protection in E-voting using BVM - Blockchain based e-Voting Mechanism

A Systematic Review of Challenges and Opportunities of Blockchain for E-Voting

FaDe: A Blockchain-Based Fair Data Exchange Scheme for Big Data Sharing

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